Medicare/Payer/Legislation

ACA didn’t decrease emergency department use for eye care

Despite the Affordable Care Act (ACA) potentially increasing access to outpatient ophthalmic care, a decrease in emergency department use for eye-related problems was not seen, according to a study. Overall, there were 16,808,343 eye-related ED visits during the study period from 2010-2017, with 8,088,203 visits occurring before the ACA was...